Mari Skurdal

Skurdal was born in Oslo on 6 September 1977, and is educated from the University of Oslo. She is a co-author of several textbooks for secondary school, and worked as teacher in secondary school until she started working as journalist for the newspaper Klassekampen.^[1]

After ten years in different leading positions in Klassekampen (the last position being feature editor), Skurdal in 2018 was appointed chief editor of the paper.^[1][2]

She was honoured as Editor of the year 2022 by Oslo Redaktørforening (the Oslo Association of Editors).^[3]

In 2021 she was criticized for the paper's coverage of transgender people by journalism lecturer Jon Martin Larsen who wrote that he fears her articles contribute to "incitement and hatred against transgender people."^[4] In 2022 Larsen wrote that Klassekampen "tramples on" transgender people and that he cautions his students against the paper.^[5] Skurdal has denied the accusation that the paper is transphobic.^[6]